markdownd

markdownd is a markdown renderer for your command-line. It can also serve the rendered markdown to your browser and reload it automatically when the file changes.

Installation

For now, you need to install from source. With Go 1.16+, run

go install github.com/cespare/markdownd@latest

Protips

Here are two lines I use in my .vimrc to make it really quick to open the current markdown file in a browser and have it auto-refresh when the file changes:

command! Markdownd !markdownd -w % >/dev/null &
noremap <leader>m :Markdownd<cr><cr>

Note that when you use markdownd -w to watch a file, the server will exit as soon as you close the web browser tab so you don't need to worry about extra markdownd servers hanging around.